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How waste from your kitchen is used to grow thousands of tonnes of food
5:40pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008
AS I survey the breathaking backdrop of rolling hills and sweeping countryside, it is hard to imagine the farm to which I am following a food waste collection truck has the capacity to deal with up to 25,000 tonnes of food waste.
Comments (0)Take a walk on the bright side – with a camera
4:50pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008
BUDDING photographers are being reminded to get clicking away for a competition to celebrate the annual illuminated walk at Spetchley Park.
Why don’t our signs say we're a Fairtrade city?
4:00pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008
A CAMPAIGNER is frustrated that Worcester has no signs to say it is a Fairtrade city.
You name it, it’s in our festive jumble jars
3:10pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008
THE magic of the festive season will be on show at a school where pupils have been putting the final touches to preparations for their annual Christmas Fayre.
Charities are missing out
2:20pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008
CHARITIES are losing out to the nuisance tactics employed by Worcester’s charity muggers, or ‘chuggers’, according to a city councillor.
They’re resurfacing perfectly good roads
1:40pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008
AN ANGRY resident of a village cul-de-sac says that money has been wasted resurfacing the road outside his home, when others in the county are in far worse condition.
Sad farewell as post office closes for the final time
12:50pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008
CUSTOMERS have said an emotional farewell to a village post office which has closed its doors for the last time.
Hair extensions worth thousands stolen
11:50am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
THOUSANDS of pounds worth of hair extensions have been stolen from a specialist salon in Worcester in a theft which may force the business to go under.
Councils attack new homes report
11:00am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
CONTROVERSIAL proposals to further increase the number of new homes planned for south Worcestershire have been attacked by the region’s councils.
Works of art go up at new block of flats
10:00am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
HISTORY has been retold on panels installed on the front of a new block of flats in Worcester city centre.
COMMENT: They failed Baby P in life and in death
9:18am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
SIXTEEN long months ago a 17-month-old boy – now known universally as Baby P – died after suffering a horrific catalogue of torture and abuse.
Four teens accused of graveyard vandalism
9:00am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
FOUR teenagers charged with spray-painting a Worcestershire graveyard and play area have appeared before magistrates.
County’s hospitals are falling short in some key areas, says report
8:10am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
HOSPITAL staff in Worcestershire are failing to meet key targets, according to the latest report.
Dad, 30, is killed by cruel disease
7:10am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
A Worcester father, who doted on his children, has died after a long battle with multiple sclerosis.
Care workers in court
6:10am Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Two care workers have appeared at Worcester Crown Court accused of poisoning a patient.
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Children get a reality check of life in prison
INCREASING numbers of young people are falling into lives of crime.
Winner of Parent Zone’s Snugdowner evening of pampering at Chessgrove Spa, Worcestershire.
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S!! to the lucky winner of the latest Parent Zone online competition for two Snugdowner treatments at Chessgrove Spa, Worcestershire.
Club was a welcome back for our soldiers
AS a welcome home from the war, it was a touch on the genteel side. After all, when you’d been dodging Hitler’s bombs and bullets for a few years, you could probably have thought of better things to do on your first night back on civvie street than wander down the social club and listen to a bloke playing a violin.
Winter Wonderland at Telford
SANTA Claus, his wife, elves and even reindeer are all to be found now that Telford’s Wonderland attraction has been transformed into Winter Wonderland in the run-up to Christmas.
Postcards from the river that spawned the tourist industry
FOLLOWING their nostalgic meander down Worcestershire’s River Severn though their extensive vintage postcard collection, Jan Dobrzynski and Keith Turner have now urned their attention to Herefordshire’s pretty river Wye.
Beatles' tribute was a treat for all
THE Backbeat Beatles were formed in 1994 by Chris O’Neill (Paul McCartney) and have been hailed as being the closest we can get to witnessing the original Fab Four.
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